Parker, RD & Dykema, S. Differences in Risk Behaviours, Care Utilization, and Comorbidities among Homeless Persons Based on HIV Status. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care. Published online ahead of print, 24 September 2013.

RD Parker & S. Dykema. The Reality of Homeless Mobility and Implications for Improving Care. Journal of Community Health. August 2013.

Parker, RD & Albrecht, H. Barriers to Care and Service Needs among Chronically Homeless Persons in a Housing First Program. Journal of Professional Case Management. November/December, 2012.

Parker, RD. Housing as an Intervention on Hospitalizations Service Access among Chronically Homeless Persons with Disabilities. Journal of Urban Health; December, 2010.

Tripathi A, Parker RD, Rüütel K. HIV risk behaviour knowledge, substance use and unprotected sex in men who have sex with men in Tallinn, Estonia. Euro Surveill.;14(48), December, 2009.

Additional Info

Funding

Dr. Parker has served as the Principal / Co Principal Investigator on more than $15,000,000 in funding from sources including: US Housing and Urban Development (HUD); Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA); US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS); US Department of Defense; various State and Local governments, international governments; as well as private industry contracts and grants.

Active Project Content Areas (June 2017)

Teaching

EPID 663. Public Health Surveillance. 3 Hours.
PR: EPID 601 or EPID 611 with a minimum grade of B. This course includes presentations and discussions of epidemiologic principles, basic statistical analysis, public health surveillance, field investigations, surveys and sampling, and epidemiologic aspects of current major public health problems in international health. The course will cover chronic and infectious diseases surveillance, and procedures and policies for data collection, compilation, and reporting. Metrics developed by the WHO will be used.

EPID 771. Infectious Diseases Epidemiology. 3 Hours.
PR: Permission of instructor. This course is designed to cover the basic epidemiological, public health, economic, surveillance, prevention and other issues related to infectious diseases. The focus includes the major infectious diseases experienced globally as well as those specific to the United States.

About R. David Parker

David Parker is a professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health and in the Department of Family and Community Health in the School of Nursing. He earned a doctor of philosophy in epidemiology in 2008 from the University of South Carolina.

Entering public health in 1999, he has held multiple roles, including research, teaching, administration, information technology, quality management, and direct services. International work in HIV and STIs began in 2007 in Estonia. Since 2015, he has helped address homelessness and housing /health care related issues among persons experiencing homelessness and persons at increased risk of homelessness in West Virginia with direct service and research programs in 50 counties in West Virginia.

Through applied research his areas of focus are risk behaviors; inter/national defense and health security; surveillance systems; and care access.

David Parker is an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Community Health and the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.